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Reading Comprehension and Digging Deeper

I’ve mentioned before that Karis is on an 8th grade reading level (at least she was when she left school in March).

She loves reading and that’s fantastic, but I want her to think critically and dig deep into the books. I also want to expand her vocabulary.

I have so many ways for her to do that!

Teachers Pay Teachers has so many fantastic novel studies. I love The Book Umbrella the most!

Starting next week she will be doing a novel study on Ella Enchanted (we have this book from the library).

In addition to novel studies, I will have her use different forms of reading response questions to answer in her reading response journal. These will be on books of her choice. She has to answer them in a paragraph with text evidence (4-6 sentences).

I will also have her read some non-fiction/informational books and respond to those.

We will learn about figurative language.

We will use reading menus with prompts and a rubric to grade.

And lastly I will teach skills and strategies and have her respond to them using a sentence starter (also in a paragraph). These are a few examples:

I will use this rubric to grade all reading response:

The books that I will be having her study are on my homeschooling page above. In addition to the books that I will have her study, I will give her plenty of time to read for enjoyment. We will study one novel a month along with one novel to go with our history, and the rest will be books of her own choosing.